A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been erected to control the flow of people, perhaps for tax reasons ...

Despite the common myth, the Great Wall of China is not visible from space, according NASA. It would be hard to find with the human eye without high-powered lenses. Just Curious for more?

A new study suggests that the northern section of the Great Wall of China wasn't actually built to as a defense against ...

The first sections of China’s Great Wall were built in the 5th century BC, but that was only the first of three distinct building phases, each with its own architectural style, He explained.

The Great Wall of China's long legacy. The Ming dynasty built a giant wall stretching 5,000 miles to keep invaders out of China, but how effective was it against the enemy?

The famous Great Wall of China actually consists of multiple fortifications, built in a piecemeal fashion between the last millennia BC and the 17th century AD.

The Great Wall was built to a great degree by default, by a political system too paralyzed by infighting to come up with anything better. Border security had been a preoccupation of China’s ...

In total, the Great Wall of China took more than 2,000 years to build - between 770 BC and 1633 AD. However, its construction was completed in stages - spanning over several dynasties and leaderships.